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Durant arranges the philosophers not just chronologically, but thematically, tracing the evolution of the Western mind.
Durant introduces Plato not as a theory of Forms, but as an Athenian aristocrat disillusioned by the death of Socrates. He presents Francis Bacon as a man of ambition who died from stuffing a chicken with snow to test refrigeration. He reveals Spinoza as a gentle, excommunicated Jew grinding lenses for a living while writing sublimely rational ethics. By humanizing the thinkers, Durant makes their ideas digestible. story of philosophy by will durant